Locomotive tender



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Patented Nov. 17, 1931 HENRY o. HAVEMEYER, an, or MAHWAI-I, NEW JERSEY LOCOMOTIVE' TENDER V Application filed December 20, 1930. Serial No. 503,639.

This invention relates to locomotive tenders, and has for its primary object to provide the water compartment of the tender body with-means which will operate to minw 5 imize surging of the water and stabilize the same in the water compartment to thereby relieve the compartment walls of excessive pressures. 7

It is another important object of the in- 1 vention to provide such stabilizing means within the water compartment of the tender which will not materially reduce the capacity thereof, and which consists of a relatively small number of easily assembled, light and 15 durably constructed parts.

It is a further general object of the invention to provide a locomotive tender ,construction as above characterized, which may be embodied in various types of locomotive tenders having storage space for either solid or pulverized coal or fuel oil in addition to the water compartment, and without material increase in the manufacturing cost of such locomotive tenders as heretofore employed.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the improved locomotive tender and in the form, construction and relative arrangement of the several parts thereof which will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and subsequently incorporated in the sub oined claims.

In the drawings, wherein I have disclosed one simple and practical embodiment of the invention, and in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view through a locomotive tender illustrating a preferred embodiment of my present improvements, and

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken substantially on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Referring in detail to the drawings, 5 designates the body of the tender which may be constructed of fabricated metal sheets or plates in the customary manner and is suitably mounted upon and secured to the under frame 6 supported upon the truck wheels 7.

The upper forward end portion of the tender body is provided with the usual fuel storage compartment 8 having a horizontally disposed forward bottom wall section 9 and a rearwardly and upwardly inclined wall section 10. It will be understood, however, that the particular form or shape of this bottom wall of the fuel storage compartment is of no particular importance in so far' as my present improvements are concerned.

The remainder of the interior of the tender body 5 provides a waterreceiving compartment generally indicated at 11 which extends the entire length of the tender body and beneath the fuel compartment 8. The water compartment rearwardly of the inclined Wall of the fuel compartment is closed'by the top Wall 12 which is provided with a suitable filling opening 13 and the closure 14; there- The water compartment 11 has arranged therein the verticallypositioned rigid metal 'tubes 15. These tubes completely fill the compartment 11 and have their wallsin contacting engagement with each other and'with the side and end walls of the tender body 5 as indicated at 16. At these contacting points, the tubes 15 are welded or riveted, or

otherwise rigidlyconnected with eachother and with the body walls of the tender. Of course, the tubes 15 which extend beneath the bottom walls 8 and 9 ofthe fuel storage compartment are of dilferent length from the remaining tubes and closely contact with said "wallsat-their'upper ends. The upper and lower ends ofthe'tubes 15 are open and adjacent to itslower end, the wall of each'tube is provided with the openings indicated at 17. Preferably there are four of these openings spaced apart 90 whereby communication is aflorded between the individual tubes and the spaces 18 of the compartment 11 ex ternally of said tubes. The openings 17 thus provide free 'intercommunication between the interior of the several tubes and the spaces '18 and also afford convenient manholes for the removalof sediment which may collect in the lower ends of the tubes and the spaces 18.

The closely'arranged vertical tubes 15 within the water compartment of the tender act as baffles which prevent surgmg of the water in the compartment 11 especially when the tender is moving upon a curved section of the track, thus stabilizing the body of water and relieving the body walls of the tender of excessive pressures. While the tubes 15 may be formed of relatively light sheet metal, since they are rigidly connected with each other and with the body walls of the tender, the structure as a whole is exceedingly strong.

From the foregoing description considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and several advantages of my improved locomotive tender will be clearly understood. The general form and construction of the tender body as illustrated in the accompanying drawings is largely suggestive, and it will be understood .that my invention may also be applied to locomotive tenders of various other constructions.

Also the detail form and shape of the metal tubes 15 as well as the number and arrangement of the openings 17 may be varied in certain respects. It is therefore, to be understood that in further development of my invention, I reserve the privilege of embodying the essential features thereof in various other alternative structures, as may be fairly incorporated within the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

I claim:

1. A locomotive tender comprising a body having a water receiving compartment, vertically positioned metal tubes completely filling said compartment, the walls of said tubes being rigidly connected with each other and the outer tubes being rigidly secured to the body walls of the tender, and each of said tubes adjacent its lower end having openings in its walls communicating with the spaces of the water compartment exteriorly of the tubes.

2. A locomotive tender comprising a body having a water compartment, a plurality of i vertically positioned cylindrical metal tubes completely filling said compartment, the walls of said tubes being in contacting engagement with each other and rigidly secured together, and the outer tubes having their walls rigidly secured to the body Walls of the tender, and each of said tubes being provided adjacent its lower end with openings affording communication between the interior of the respective tubes and the spaces of the water compartment externally of said tubes.

, 3. A locomotive tender comprising a body having a fuel storage compartment at one end of less depth than said body and a water storage compartment extending the entire length of the tender body and beneaththe fuel compartment, vertically positioned metal tubes completely filling the water compartment and open at their upper and lower ends, the walls of said tubes being in contacting engagement and rigidly secured together, and the Walls of the outer series of tubes being rigidly secured to the body walls of the tender, and each of said metal tubes adjacent its lower end having openings in the wall thereof alfording communication between the interior of the respective tubes and the spaces of the water compartment 'exteriorly of said tubes. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name hereto.

HENRY O. HAVEMEYER, JR.

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